MEGA 1000 - Key Persons
Hergenrother partnered with Keller Williams Realty to launch Livian, a platform to help real estate agents and teams scale with systems and services, in 2021. The company now has 64 locations in 33 states. In 2023, the firm added two new executives, including a new president and senior vice president of revenue. Before founding Livian, Hergenrother founded and grew a large Keller Williams Realty team.
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- President
- President of ERA Real Estate
Vidal became president of ERA Real Estate in mid-2023. In this position, he oversees a brand with over 13,300 U.S. agents who do more than $31 billion in annual sales. He came to lead this Anywhere Real Estate brand from his role as regional vice president the Dallas-area offices of Coldwell Banker Realty. Before joining Anywhere, he served as vice president for an ERA Real Estate affiliate in South Florida.
Erize joined CINC (also known as Commissions Inc.) as COO in 2016, when Fidelity National Financial acquired the company, and later transitioned to CEO. Today he oversees the strategic direction of the lead generation and conversion platform for North American agents, teams, and brokers. In 2023, CINC announced an integration with Inside Sales Agent service Conversion Monster.
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- CEO
- CEO of the Women 's Council of Realtors
As CEO of the Women's Council of Realtors, Stinton leads the Chicago, Illinois-based organization's efforts to support and empower a nationwide community of over 12,000 members. Stinton took over as CEO of the council in September 2023 after spending nearly 16 years at the National Association of Realtors, most recently as its director of leadership and sustainability.
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- Senior Vice President for Re / Max
- SVP, Region Development
Lessinger became senior vice president for Re/Max region development in 2023. In this role, she leads a 65-member team and oversees strategic growth of Re/Max company-owned regions in the U.S. Her role entails recruiting, retention, franchise development, and sales. Lessinger joined the brand in 1998 as an agent in Reno, Nevada, and went on to become a broker-owner overseeing more than 130 agents in three offices.
Flachner leads RealScout, which provides agents and their clients with agent-branded home search portals. RealScout also serves brokerages in certain markets through its Buyer Graph offering, which distills aggregated buyer data to determine market insights and ideal pricing. In Q4 2023, the company released a platform update called RealScout+ and announced a partnership with Anywhere Real Estate to make its platform available to the likes of Century 21, Coldwell Banker, and Sotheby's International Realty.
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- CEO
- Founder
- Head of CoStar Group
In 2023, Florance stepped on the gas in his relatively recent entrance into the residential real estate space with a revamped Homes.com. CoStar Group, which he founded in 1987 and has run since as CEO, has aggressively grown and developed Homes.com, and increased its traffic significantly since acquiring the portal in 2021. As he has demonstrated in other verticals, notably commercial real estate and rentals, he is hunting dominance in the real estate sales space with a "My Listing, My Lead" strategy. CoStar is rapidly becoming one of the most powerful players in the space and Florance is leading that charge.
Florance, the head of CoStar Group, has continued a high focus on the residential sales side of his business in 2023, as he works to solidify and reshape Homes.com into a dominant portal.
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- CEO
- President
- Leader of Engel & Völkers Americas
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As the leader of Engel & Völkers Americas, Hitt leads the U.S. operations for the German luxury real estate franchisor. The brand's more than 5,400 American agents do an estimated $17.2 billion in annual sales. The franchise continued to grow in 2023 with a new presence in Washington, D.C., and an expanded presence in Florida, Colorado, California and Pennsylvania.
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- CEO, California Regional
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Carter leads the nation's largest MLS in CRMLS, which has over 108,000 members, and is the country's most powerful and influential MLS executive. Known as a clear, innovative leader, he has helped spearhead numerous MLS initiatives, including a new MLS data-monetization effort in REdistribute. In 2023, he coordinated a data-share agreement with two other large MLSs: Bright MLS and BeachesMLS.
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- Head of Data and Analytics for Black Knight
- President, Data and Analytics
As head of data and analytics for Black Knight, Graboske oversees the technology development for real estate professionals, the mortgage industry and secondary markets, including the company's popular MLS software Paragon used by over 200 MLSs across the US. In 2023, Black Knight added computer vision technology to Paragon and launched a mobile app to expedite valuation and loan approval.
A multidimensional real estate leader who owns a variety of real estate brokerages, technology and training platforms, Kinney made a huge leap into real estate teams by co-founding Place in 2020. The platform, which provides back-office and other key support to over 100 teams across the U.S., raised $100 million in 2021. He also runs the Built How event series, which hosts live events across the country with real estate leaders highlighting how they achieved their success.
Bess Freedman CEO, Brown Harris Stevens SP 200 Rank | 43 Freedman is in her 10th year as CEO at Brown Harris Stevens, the country's 20th largest brokerage with more than 2,700 agents doing over $10.4 billion in annual sales. BHS, which celebrated 150 years in business in 2023, operates as the brokerage wing under parent company Terra Holdings. Freedman, who previously practiced law, is an active member of the Real Estate Board of New York Board of Governors.
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- CEO
- President
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- President and CEO of Golden Gate Sotheby 's International Realty
In his role as president and CEO of Golden Gate Sotheby's International Realty, Bullock oversees nearly 500 San Francisco Bay Area agents who do over $5 billion in annual sales. In 1991, he co-founded Decker Bullock Realty, which affiliated with Sotheby's in 2007 and rebranded as Golden Gate a decade later. Bullock began his career in real estate in 1982 after working as a corporate trainer and serving in the U.S. Marines.
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- President
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Scavone leads Weichert Realtors, which operates the nation's 11th largest brokerage and its eighth largest franchise brand. He took the helm of the brokerage side of the business in July 2022 after leading the franchise side as president since 2016. The company is the US's ninth largest enterprise, with approximately 14,400 agents at franchised and company-owned offices who do over $41 billion in annual sales.
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- CEO
- President
- CEO of UtahRealEstate.Com
Bjelke serves as CEO of UtahRealEstate.com, Utah's largest MLS, which serves approximately 19,000 members. In 2023, he coordinated a data share with the New Mexico MLS to increase exposure. Bjelke is also a founder of MLS collaboration group MLS Aligned and serves on the board of directors for the Council of Multiple Listing Services.
Brenda Tushaus CEO, Re/Max Results SP 200 Rank | 64 Tushaus manages Re/Max Results, which has over 1,200 agents in Minnesota and western Wisconsin who do over $7 billion in annual sales. Prior to becoming CEO, Tushaus held a variety of positions over 16 years with the company, most recently as chief operating officer. In 2023, she expanded the company's reach through a new joint-venture with mortgage company Kind Lending.
Brian Buffini leads business-building firm Buffini & Company, which he founded in 1996 to coach and train real estate professionals in securing more leads and sales. His brother, Dermot, has been company CEO since 2013. In September 2023, the firm announced an exclusive pilot partnership with Re/Max in 19 Spanish-speaking countries. The firm reports it has worked with more than 3 million professionals in 45 countries.
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- CEO
- Co - Founder
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Crane, who co-founded Intero Real Estate in 2002, has led the company as CEO since 2019. The Silicon Valley-based firm serves Northern California and Nevada through its 19 company offices. Its 33-affiliate franchise network serves California, Nevada, Texas, and Tennessee. Crane is an industry veteran of more than three decades who also teaches real estate concepts through Intero's Academy, REB courses, and continuing education classes.
Fair serves as the regional owner for Keller Williams Realty Pinnacle Partners Group in the New York tri-state area. He oversees over 3,800 agents who do nearly $8 billion in annual sales. His domain also includes four Atlanta-based real estate offices.
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- CEO
- President
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Huskey runs Naples, Florida-based Premier Sotheby's International Realty, a leading affiliate in the SIR global network with offices reaching from Florida's Gulf Coast to North Carolina's High Country. He joined Premier SIR after retiring as CEO of Coldwell Banker Real Estate in 2016. He is also vice chairman at Premier SIR parent company Peerage Realty.
McDuffee leads Elm Street Technology, provider of several popular real estate technology products including an end-to-end technology platform, which includes CRM, lead generation, IDX websites and more. A veteran tech industry leader, he joined Elm Street in 2022 from DealerSocket, a global software-as-a-service provider for auto dealers.
In 2023, Hale celebrated 50 years at Houston Association of Realtors. First hired as legal counsel, Hale became president in 1988. The association has grown to over 45,000 members across Texas, making it the nation's second largest local Realtor association. Its real estate portal HAR.com, which displays listings throughout Texas, draws approximately 8 million monthly visitors, making it one of the nation's most trafficked portals.
After founding California-based First Team Real Estate in 1976, Merage grew the company into one of the top 35 largest brokerages with approximately 1,900 agents doing over $6.5 billion in annual sales. In 2023, the firm executed a rebrand of the company and announced the appointment of CEO Michelle Harrington. Cameron has retained the chairman of the board title.
Adams serves as president and CEO of the HomeServices of America-owned brokerage Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New England Properties, which has 2,600 agents in 63 offices in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. With over two decades at HomeServices of America, Adams has helped grow the BHHS brand's entree into New York City and also serves on the residential brokerage board of the Real Estate Board of New York and as a director of SmartMLS.
As chief operating officer, Cheng oversees the development of new services for Canada's 100-plus-year-old company Royal LePage, a division of Bridgemarq Real Estate Services with over 20,000 agents. COO since 2016, she has overseen the company's introduction of new services since 2003. The London School of Economics grad is also an award-winning landscape photographer, who has shown her work In Canadian galleries.
Wheeler leads Opendoor, which has become the nation's largest iBuying company. She has solidified the company's position since taking the helm in 2022 by expanding a partnership with Zillow Group and Redfin. In 2023, Wheeler announced Opendoor's intention to double down on home purchases and plans for a 2024 Super Bowl ad. Wheeler has nearly 30 years' experience in private equity, having spent more than two decades at TPG Capital.
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- Broker - Owner
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Ochsner owns Denver-based brokerage Re/Max Alliance, which has nearly 800 agents who do approximately $4.5 billion in annual sales. He is a second-generation Realtor who has also served as a director of the Colorado Association of Realtors and has been on the board of the Denver Metro Association of Realtors and REColorado (Denver's MLS), as well as the advisory boards of Realtor.com, Zillow, and Trulia.
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- EVP
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Kelly has become the clear No. 2 to HomeServices of America President and CEO Gino Blefari, and the heir apparent for the nation's fourth largest real estate enterprise and its third largest brokerage. He plays a leadership role in HSA brokerage Ebby Halliday Companies as executive chairman. Before joining the Ebby Halliday Companies in 2018, he served as senior counsel for HomeServices of America, where he supported the company's acquisitions and technology initiatives.
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- Co - Founder
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Suarez, along with Ben Kinney, co-founded Place in 2020 as a platform that partners with real estate teams to provide the essential components for them to grow and increase profits. The firm has partnered with over 100 teams across North America and has raised over $100 million in financing. He is an expansion partner for PDX Property Group and Keller Williams (KW) Xperience Real Estate, and owns and operates other KW franchises in the U.S. and Costa Rica.
As president of Re/Max Canada since 2021, Alexander helms the country's largest real estate franchise brand. He oversees operations in all Canadian provinces but Quebec, which remains independent, although he works closely with their leaders to build comprehensive brand strategy across Canada. Alexander, who began his career as a Re/Max sales associate in 2010, is the grandson of Frank J. Polzler who co-founded the first Re/Max region in Atlantic Canada in 1980.
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- CEO
- President
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Masiello leads the 600-agent New England-based brokerage The Masiello Group, which has approximately 600 agents who do approximately $1.8 billion in annual sales. The Masiello Group is a second-generation family company, which also includes title, referral, and other real estate services.
Budnick runs Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, the flagship franchise brand for HomeServices of America. In this role, she oversees the nation's fifth largest real estate franchise brand, which has over 50,000 affiliated agents who do over $146 billion in annual sales. She previously served as the president and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Florida Network Realty and is known for her practical and logical approach to the real estate profession.
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- President
- Next Executive
- President of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers
In 2023, Johnson Rose became president of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers, which has approximately 20,000 members who focus on developing Black real estate professionals and on improving the homeownership opportunities of Black Americans. A real estate broker since 2002, Johnson Rose has led her family's company, George E. Johnson Properties as CEO since 2019. She began her career as a project management consultant at Accenture and has a PhD in Organizational Leadership.
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- CEO
- President
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As president and CEO, Cheatham leads an influential network of large brokerages, which represent over 100,000 agents in 2,700 offices across North America. He has also been CEO of the Broker Resource Network, which he co-founded, since 2020.
Witt oversees the US business of real estate franchisor EXIT Realty Corp, which has nearly 23,000 agents who do over $25.1 billion in annual sales. Witt, who joined EXIT Realty in 2004, became U.S. CEO in 2021. He owned and operated multiple EXIT Realty franchises, rapidly rising through the ranks. In 2023, Witt spearheaded the company's aggressive expansion by opening 36 new markets across the country.
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- CEO
- Co - Founder
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Eales succeeded David Doctorow at the helm of Move, which operates realtor.com, in June 2023. Eales, who held a variety of roles at News Corp Australia including as chief marketing officer and chief operating officer of the Australian publishing business, was most recently executive vice president and global head of transformation at News Corp, which acquired Move in 2014. In his work in Australia, he helped REA Group's realestate.com.au maintain and grow its standing as Australia's leading real estate portal. Eales faces a fierce battle with Homes.com to hold onto the U.S.'s No. 2 portal position.
Corkill runs the real estate CRM and lead management system, Follow Up Boss, which facilitates automatic lead distribution and follow up from over 250 different sources. Corkill, who co-founded the company in 2011, coordinated the sale of his company to Zillow Group for $400 million in 2023.
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- CEO
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Duffy leads the large real estate network United Real Estate, which operates residential, country, and auctioneering divisions. Its residential division operates with a fee-based business model with both company-owned and franchised offices. In 2023, the firm introduced group healthcare and financial wellness programs as well as a Lead Boost initiative. United Real Estate, which further expanded its reach in 2023 with acquisitions of brokerages in Texas and Alabama, ranks as the nation's 12th largest brokerage with over 14,000 agents at company-owned offices who do approximately $21 billion in annual sales.
A long-time leader of popular real estate portal Homes.com, Mele continues to lead the portal under CoStar Group. He is leading that firm's high-profile leap into the residential sales side of real estate, which includes a significant war chest to support an aggressive marketing strategy, a playbook it has used to achieve portal leadership in other industries. He will have a growing presence in the industry as Homes.com is poised to launch its revamped agent products in 2024.
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- Chief Industry Development Officer
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Samuelson's role at Zillow Group includes responsibility for the company's new construction business, media business, its Canadian operations and its business-to-business divisions including dotloop, Bridge Interactive, and ShowingTime. He brings more than 25 years of experience in the technology and real estate sectors, helping inform Zillow's evolution of its relationship with the real estate industry from customers to partners. Prior to joining Zillow in 2014, he served as president of realtor.com.
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- Co - Founder
- Executive Chairman
Keller spent much of 2023 back at the helm of Keller Williams Realty, overseeing the nation's largest franchise brand based on agent count (169,266), transaction sides (1.04 million) and sales volume ($439 billion). In 2023, he brought back Mark Willis, a key lieutenant who played a vital role in the company's ascension in the mid-2000s as CEO. While the company battled the high-profile compensation lawsuits, Keller is widely viewed as having performed well on the stand at trial.
Swartzman runs Peerage Realty Partners, which owns a network of brokerages in the luxury real estate space across North America. Its more than 4,700 U.S. agents do approximately $28 billion in annual sales, which makes Peerage the nation's eighth largest brokerage firm. The firm has grown quickly through acquisitions of large brokerages, many of them affiliates of Sotheby's International Realty. He joined Peerage in 2014 from MDC Partners where he oversaw 15 partner firms and real estate activity across the company's entire network.
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- CEO
- President
- America President and CEO
- CEO of HomeServices of America
As CEO of HomeServices of America, Blefari leads the nation's third largest brokerage with an agent count of more than 44,500 who do nearly $166 billion in annual sales. He is also the chairman of the company's large real estate brand, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. In 2023, the company faced compensation conspiracy allegations in court, in which Blefari played a strong role from the stand. Through the first nine months of 2023, the company contributed $25 million in net earnings to parent company Berkshire Hathaway Energy.
Redfin's CEO since 2005, Kelman has navigated a challenging year for the nation's sixth largest brokerage, as it makes a big push for profitability. The company successfully integrated its relatively new rental network, RentPath, into its business in 2023 with $136 million in revenue through the first three quarters, but, overall reported a net loss of $103 million in that period. In 2023, the company introduced pilot agent compensation plans that mirror traditional plans and announced it would operate more as a marketplace.
Sanford's real estate empire, which continued to grow in 2023, posted $12.2 million in net income through the first nine months. In 2023, the firm launched eXp Exclusives, which provides eXp Realty agents exclusive access to on- and off-market properties in the U.S. and Canada and expanded its new luxury division eXp Luxury.
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- CEO
- President
- President and CEO of Edina Realty
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As president and CEO of Edina Realty, Mason oversees 75 offices and over 2,300 agents in Minnesota and Wisconsin. He also leads the company's family of businesses, which include title, mortgage, home warranty, insurance and relocation. Mason started at Edina Realty in 1986 as a title examiner and became CEO in 2014.
Guy Gal - CEO, Founder
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- CEO
- Co - Founder
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Gal has run Side, an innovative brokerage model he co-founded, since co-founding it in 2017. Over the past six years, the San Francisco-based company has provided key operational and back-office support for over 500 real estate companies, who reportedly do, collectively, enough volume to place Side on the Mega 1000 in 2024. In 2023, Gal brought in Stephen Capezza as president to drive growth. Gal is a long-time entrepreneur who has founded three other companies and continues to advise other tech innovators.
Since co-founding Crye-Leike in Memphis over four decades ago with Dick Leike, Crye has built his firm into a Mid-South powerhouse. Its company-owned brokerage division has nearly 2,900 agents who do over $7 billion in annual sales. Crye currently serves on LeadingRE's board as secretary and is a past chair of The Realty Alliance.
Tager runs the real estate digital marketing company Ylopo, which has become a popular tool for brokerages, teams and agents to grow their businesses and brands. In 2023, the company launched RAIYA Voice, a new outbound AI tool to call and convert leads into appointments, which integrates with its text communication tool popular with brokerages, teams and agents looking to grow their businesses and brands. Tager previously founded and ran lead generation service TigerLead Solutions, which Move Inc. bought in 2012.
The third-generation leader of the brokerage his grandfather founded in 1931, Scott oversees nearly 2,900 agents in more than 100 franchised and company-owned offices in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Northern California, who do over $17 billion in annual sales. Scott is involved with NAR as past chair of the Large Residential Firms Advisory Group and the NAR Research Committee.
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- President and CEO, T3 Sixty
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- CEO
- Co - Founder
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Dwiggins leads NextHome, a fast-growing real estate franchise, with more than 600 active offices across the US. A third-generation real estate professional, who has over 20 years in the industry himself, Dwiggins grew his industry influence in 2023 with a popular podcast that digests important industry issues, most notably the compensation developments in the industry. He founded NextHome in 2014 and co-founded a tech platform for agents, Rayse, that launched in 2022.
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- CEO
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O'Bryon has been at Re/Max Gold as CEO since 1996. In that time, he has grown the company immensely from its Northern California base. Thanks to several acquisitions, the brokerage, which has over 3,000 agents who do over $18 billion in annual sales, now has operations in California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Arizona, and Washington. The firm celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2023. In 2023, the firm expanded to Utah and introduced a seller concierge offering in which sellers fix up their home before a sale and pay upon close.
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- President
- President of Coldwell Banker Affiliates
In his role as president of Coldwell Banker Affiliates, Waugh is responsible for managing day-to-day operations, accelerating growth and enhancing services to over 100,000 agents affiliated with the Coldwell Banker brand. Before achieving his current role in October 2023, Waugh served as president of BHHS Northwest Real Estate and BHHS Real Estate Professionals. He works alongside Kamini Lane, who was tapped to lead the Anywhere company owned broker franchise in April 2023.
As chief operating officer, Wacksman is focused on helping Zillow Group create a seamless customer experience. At the firm since 2009, Wacksman has been overseeing core company operations as COO since 2021. Prior to this role, he served as Zillow president and CMO for Zillow Group. At Microsoft he led Xbox marketing and product management before moving to real estate. Wacksman remains an active advisor to startup and growth companies.
President and CEO of brokerage tech company Lone Wolf Technologies since 2019, Kelly has significantly expanded the firm's product portfolio. After the company's 2020 acquisition by equity firm Stone Point Capital, Kelly oversaw the acquisition of several other technology firms, including those covering digital marketing, CRM, transaction management, business insights and more product areas.
Skousen leads popular real estate tech provider Inside Real Estate, maker of kvCore, an end-to-end platform tool featuring an integrated website, CRM and marketing system used by over 400,000 brokerages, agents and teams. In 2023, the company acquired real estate platform Boomtown and released new software to further automate listing marketing and engagement with homebuyers throughout their homeownership experience.
John Berkowitz Co-Founder and CEO, Ojo Labs SP 200 Rank | 92 Berkowitz has led Ojo Labs as CEO since co-founding it in 2015. The Austin, Texas-based company owns the popular national real estate portal Movoto and operates a national referral network under the Ojo brand. In 2023, the firm sold its Canadian operations to the Royal Bank of Canada and secured debt financing, which collectively secured $200 million in investment for the company.
Lane took over the top spot at Anywhere Real Estate's company-owned offices affiliated with its Coldwell Banker brand in March 2023. As president and CEO, she oversees more than 52,000 agents in over 700 offices in more than 50 U.S. markets. Before joining Coldwell Banker, Lane was a president at Sotheby's International Realty and various Compass regions. The Harvard Business School grad also has experience in marketing, communications, and fashion.
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- Production for the Holding Company Centers Exclusively on Its Franchise Brand Keller Williams Realty. It Operates No Brokerages at the Holding Company Level
Keller Williams: Production for the holding company centers exclusively on its franchise brand Keller Williams Realty. It operates no brokerages at the holding company level.
T3 Sixty uses the term franchise brand refers to specific real estate brands and franchisor to refer to franchise groups that operate multiple real estate brands; for example, Anywhere Brands is a franchisor that runs the franchise brands Coldwell Banker Real Estate, Sotheby's International Realty, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, ERA Real Estate and Corcoran Group. Some franchisors only operate one franchise brand such as Keller Williams Realty and RE/MAX.
Jewgieniew founded and leads Realty One Group, the nation's 10th largest real estate enterprise with over 18,000 agents at franchised and company-owned offices who do over $40 billion in annual sales. Founded in 2005, the firm, which has a presence in 49 states and 16 countries, operates a fee-based brokerage model and has sold over 400 franchises, 70 in 2023. The 4,800 agents at Realty One Group's company-owned offices do over $10.3 billion in annual sales.
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- CEO
- President
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Conway leads Louisiana-based Latter & Blum, which has over 3,100 agents who do more than $5 billion in annual sales. She became the company's principal broker in 2005 and took over its leadership in 2020 from her father, who purchased the brokerage in 1986. The New Orleans-based firm has 32 sales offices across Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi. Conway is also chair of independent brokerages group The Realty Alliance and on the board of managers for the Broker Public Portal.
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- CEO
- CEO of BHHS Fox & Roach Realtors
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As CEO of BHHS Fox & Roach Realtors, Flick V leads over 5,000 agents in more than 80 offices in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In management of the company since 2007, he became CEO in 2018. In 2023, Flick V oversaw the acquisition of BHHS New Jersey Properties, which added 19 offices and over 600 agents to his firm. In addition to leading the brokerage, he heads the firm's mortgage division, The Trident Group, as CEO.
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- CEO
- President
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Gehringer plays a key role in the growth and operation of Anywhere Real Estate's franchise wing. In her role, she oversees Coldwell Banker Affiliates, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, Century 21, and ERA Real Estate. Gehringer became president of Coldwell Banker Affiliates in 2021. Before becoming chief operating officer of Coldwell Banker Affiliates in 2018, she served as a senior vice president at Coldwell Banker parent Anywhere Real Estate. She entered leadership at the company in 2006.
Stark leads Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Arizona, California, and Nevada Properties, which HomeServices of America acquired in 2021, as chairman. In this role, he oversees nearly 3,000 agents in 32 offices in three states.
Willis, who as CEO, played a vital role in Keller Williams Realty's explosive growth from 2005 to 2015, rejoined the firm and stepped back into his leadership position in 2023. After flirting with joining eXp Realty as an executive, Willis returned to the company where he established and grew his career. The Austin-based company currently has more than 1,100 offices and 187,000 agents, but Willis wants to grow agent count to between 250,000 and 300,000.
As head of Century 21 Canada, one of the franchise's most successful regions globally, Charlwood oversees nearly 400 offices across Canada. He succeeds his father, who launched the firm in 1976, in that position. He is also a director at Century 21 Canada-owner Charlwood Pacific Group, which includes a travel agency and a property management group.
Widdows runs Scottsdale, Arizona-based HomeSmart, which he founded in 2000 and operates as a fee-based brokerage model in which agents pay transaction and membership fees and keep 100% of their commissions. The company, which has 24,000 agents in 38 states at franchised and company-owned locations, does approximately $37 billion in annual sales. The company once had plans to go public but has recently been quiet on that front. In 2023, HomeSmart acquired Atlanta-based, 2,000-agent brokerage Solid Source Real Estate Cos.
Umansky has grown the luxury firm he co-founded in 2011, The Agency, into one of the nation's largest. The Los Angeles-based brokerage has over 850 agents doing nearly $9 billion in sales. In 2023, the company expanded to The Hamptons, Texas, and North Carolina. The company has a robust franchise wing and has grown internationally with a presence in over 10 countries. A real estate celebrity who rose to consumer fame who appeared on the Million Dollar Listing TV franchise and is currently featured on Netflix's Buying Beverly Hills, Umansky also appeared on Dancing With the Stars in 2023.
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- CEO
- President
- President and CEO of Century 21 Real Estate
As president and CEO of Century 21 Real Estate, Miedler oversees the nation's sixth largest franchise brand. The brand's nearly 50,000 affiliated U.S. agents do over $100 billion in annual sales. Before assuming the lead of Century 21, Miedler served as global chief growth officer for the brand where he led the franchise sales team and focused on capturing share in emerging and diverse markets.
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- CEO
- President
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Wurzer runs FBS, which offers the popular MLS software Flexmls Platform in its suite of products (including Launch Dashboard, FlōPlan System, and Spark API). Flexmls is used by over 150 MLSs and 200,000 agents. In addition, he serves on the board of directors of the Real Estate Standards Organization.
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- President, Real Estate News
Bailey, entering his third year as CEO of Re/Max, enters the top 10 of the SP 200 for the first time in 2024. As head of one of the U.S.'s third largest franchise brand, which has over 58,000 U.S. agents who do over $291 billion in annual sales, he is responsible for growing and maintaining a robust brand. He showed leadership in 2023 by coordinating a $55 million settlement for the compensation lawsuits in which Re/Max was a defendant. However, through the third quarter in 2023, the company lost $80.1 million (a big chunk attributed to the settlement) and continued to lose U.S. agents.
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- CEO
- President
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Liebman leads Anywhere Real Estate's newest franchise brand, Corcoran Group, as president and CEO. The brand, designed to serve megacities and leisure markets in the U.S. and around the world, sold its first franchise in 2020 and has grown into a network of over 4,000 U.S. agents who do over $33 billion in annual sales. Liebman previously managed the day-to-day operations of the New York City-based offices of this powerhouse for two decades.
Morris owns and runs Keller Williams Realty Forward Living, which has more than 1,400 agents who do over $3.7 billion in annual sales. He is also a KW regional owner for Central and Southern California, Westside LA, and LA Coastal. Morris, in 2023, started Dream House Capital to help first-time homebuyers renovate and own value-add properties.
Soper runs Canada's largest real estate brokerage enterprise, Bridgemarq Real Estate Services, which owns and operates the brands Royal LePage, Via Capitale and Johnston & Daniel, collectively consisting of over 20,000 agents in approximately 670 company-owned and franchised offices. He has run the company with consistency and balance since assuming the CEO role in 2003.
White Jr. oversees the day-to-day operation of the almost 1,000 company-owned and franchised offices within Anywhere Real Estate's highly regarded luxury brand, Sotheby's International Realty, which ranks as the nation's fourth largest real estate brand. White became chief operating officer in 2004, CEO of the affiliate network in 2013 and added the company-owned stores to his leadership portfolio in 2019.
Barton has steadied the Zillow Group ship over the last two years, as it has adapted its end-to-end transaction vision from iBuying to a more asset-light approach. To effect this transition in 2023, he led the rollout of ShowingTime+, a suite of sophisticated listing tools and services for agents, and acquired one of the industry's most popular technologies for real estate teams in Follow Up Boss. The company posted a net loss of $85 million in 2023 through the third quarter, but has solidified its position and direction, and is poised to leverage its portal dominance in the years ahead.
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- CEO
- Chairman
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Davidson leads Cairn Real Estate Holdings with a portfolio that includes the large brokerage and franchise operator JP and Associates Realtors (JPAR), which operates a fee-based brokerage model and has over 4,000 agents in more than 60 offices in 28 states. In 2023, JPAR expanded into California and launched an agent health benefit program. Davidson formerly led Century 21 Real Estate as CEO from 2010 to 2017.
Haase oversees strategy and operations for United Real Estate's brokerage and franchise business, which has nearly 14,300 agents who do over $20.8 billion in annual sales. In 2023, the firm launched healthcare and wealth building programs for agents. Previously, Haase led Louisiana-based brokerage Latter & Blum from 2010 to 2018.
As he continued to work to steady the Compass ship in 2023, Reffkin further solidifies his position as one of the industry's most powerful leaders. The company still lost money in 2023, reporting a net loss of $236.3 million through the first nine months of the year, but that represents about a 50% drop in losses from the same period a year before. The firm maintained its position as the U.S.'s largest brokerage in 2023, with over 28,000 agents who do over $227 billion in annual sales and got larger with the acquisition of large Texas brokerage Realty Austin.
Schneider jumps to No. 1 for the first time ever on the SP 200 in 2024 based on his strong leadership at the nation's largest real estate enterprise, which has over 195,000 U.S. agents at company-owned and franchised offices who do over $636 billion in annual sales. He reorganized the firm, streamlined its leadership structure and, through the first nine months of 2023, achieved a net profit of $10 million. He also orchestrated a nationwide settlement related to the compensation-related class-action antitrust lawsuits for $83.5 million, limiting exposure for the company and providing an operational runway clear of that challenge in 2024.
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- CEO
- President
- Next Executive
- President and CEO of Douglas Elliman Realty
As president and CEO of Douglas Elliman Realty, Durkin oversees the nation's fifth largest brokerage, which has nearly 7,000 agents who do approximately $42 billion in annual sales. The company has approximately 120 offices in 10 states. In 2023, Douglas Elliman and UK-headquartered Knight Frank affiliated with The Isles Group to enter the Bahamian luxury market, extending its international presence. Durkin joined Douglas Elliman as COO from the Corcoran Group in 2016.
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- CEO
- Chairman
- Next Executive
Webber oversees Majestic Realty Collective, a brokerage company built of several Sotheby's International Realty brokerages. LIV Sotheby's International Realty is the collective's largest firm - in total, the firm has 57 offices in five western states. Combined, the companies rank as the nation's 15th largest brokerage with approximately 1,200 agents who do nearly $14-billion in annual sales. Webber has over four decades of real estate experience including time as a senior vice president at Anywhere Real Estate.
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- Co - Founder and CEO, Knock
Black leads Knock, which launched in 2015 with a twist on the iBuying business model in which the company made all-cash offers on behalf of sellers' next homes. In 2021, it unveiled a cash-backed offer service for buyers. The company raised $220 million in 2022 but has been relatively quiet as this alternative finance category and its offerings look to gain traction with the changing market.
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- EVP Enterprise Strategy
- Executive Vice President of Enterprise Strategy at CoreLogic
As executive vice president of enterprise strategy at CoreLogic, Khatod leads the firm's efforts to improve its real estate technology. The company's over 4.5 billion records combine public and proprietary data spanning more than 50 years. Khatod joined CoreLogic in California in 2015, moving from roles in risk and regulatory solutions in New York.
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- Founder and Executive Chairman, T3 Sixty
Stephanie Anton President, Corcoran Group SP 200 Rank | 76 Anton oversees the growth of the Corcoran Group real estate brand, whose affiliates do over $33 billion in annual sales. In 2023, the firm entered Canada and Europe with new franchises in Ontario and Italy. It also expanded its presence in Texas and New Jersey. Anton was previously managing director of global services for five of six Anywhere Real Estate brands.
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- President and CEO, Baird & Warner
Baird runs Baird & Warner, which has over 2,300 agents who do over $6 billion in annual sales in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and (as of 2022) Florida. His great-great-grandfather, Lyman Baird, founded the Chicagoland brokerage in 1855, which makes the company one of the nation's two oldest brokerages. In 2023, the firm incorporated ChatGPT into its CRM. The company also placed in the top 10 of the Chicago Tribune's Top Workplaces for the tenth time in 2023.
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- CEO
- President
- President and CEO of Anywhere Brands
As president and CEO of Anywhere Brands, Yannaccone oversees the largest cadre of real estate brokerage brands in the world, including Coldwell Banker, Sotheby's International Realty, Century 21, ERA, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate and Corcoran Group. She has become the strong No. 2 at the nation's largest real estate enterprise, which has over 195,000 U.S. agents at company-owned and franchised offices who do over $636 billion in annual sales. With Schneider, she has helped the firm trim expenses and tighten operations, which resulted in a $10 million net profit through the first nine months in 2023.
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- President
- Zillow Group President
As Zillow Group president, Daimler leads the firm's Premier Agent business as well as its mortgage and StreetEasy businesses. In her role, she oversees the divisions that fuel the bulk of Zillow Group's significant annual revenue. Through the third quarter, Zillow Group's residential (of which Premier Agent provides the bulk of revenue) and mortgage divisions brought in nearly $1.2 billion in revenue combined. Daimler joined Zillow in 2012 when the company acquired her Buyfolio platform, one of several startups she has co-founded over her career.
As Co-Chair of EXIT Realty Corp. International, Bonnell leads a real estate brand with nearly 23,000 agents who do over $25.1 billion in annual sales. She joined the firm in 1999 and was president and CEO before transitioning to her current role in 2021. In 2023, she spearheaded EXIT's expansion into Arkansas and Oklahoma. Bonnell is also an active member of the National Women's Council of Realtors.
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- CEO
- Co - Founder
- Co - Founder and CEO of the Real Brokerage
As co-founder and CEO of The Real Brokerage, Poleg leads one of the fastest-growing brokerages in the U.S. The firm, launched in 2014, became the nation's 18th largest brokerage in 2023 with more than 7,000 agents who do over $12 billion in annual sales. Real, which now has a presence in all 50 states, leverages a revenue-sharing, capped model similar to eXp Realty to achieve this growth. The company went public in 2020 and continues to scale rapidly. In 2023, it released an agent-focused financial suite, a consumer app, and an AI-powered virtual concierge.
Wright runs Majestic Realty Collective, a brokerage company that includes several Sotheby's International Realty brokerages, as president. LIV Sotheby's International Realty is the collective's largest firm - in total, the firm has 57 offices in five western states. Combined, the companies rank as the nation's 15th largest brokerage with approximately 1,200 agents who do nearly $14- billion in annual sales. He also serves as principal broker of Summit Sotheby's International Realty.
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- CEO
- Founder
- Next Executive
As founder and CEO of digital transaction management platform SkySlope, Smith leads one of the industry's leading transaction management platform providers, reportedly serving over 650,000 North American real estate professionals. The company has introduced additional services to partners including a transaction coordination service, offer-management tools and forms software.
President of Realty One Group since 2017, Tracey focuses on growing the franchise brand both in the U.S. and internationally. In 2023, the firm added five new countries to its roster. It is the nation's 21st largest brokerage and franchise brand with more than 4,800 agents doing over $10 billion in annual sales. Tracey began his real estate career at Re/Max and presided over the franchise from 2004 to 2015.
Baur is CEO of popular real estate brokerage platform MoxiWorks, which integrates productivity and data tech offerings with CRM, CMA, website builder, recruiting tools and more for brokers and agents. The company is owned by private equity firm Vector Capital with large brokerage companies Windermere Real Estate, Long & Foster and Howard Hanna also as investors. MoxiWorks serves more than 800 brokerage and over 600 MLS clients and has over 400,000 agents using its platform.